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Regional Training Site (RTS)-Medical at Fort McCoy ran a Combat Support Hospital/Field Hospital Commander/Command Sergeant Major Course from Nov. 6-8 to help prepare new commanders for the challenges they’ll face in the future
The three-day course is designed to provide leaders the required guidance, knowledge, techniques, and procedures required to perform their duties as a Combat Support Hospital (CSH) or Field Hospital (FH) commander or command sergeant major. It covers topics such as Tactical Standing Operating Procedures, organization and equipment, hospital layouts (including utilities), operations orders, and leadership.
“Our intent is to help these commanders … have successful tenures and avoid some of the leadership potholes in the road,” said Col. Cynthia Hopkins, site director for RTS-Medical.
The course is conducted in a classroom setting, and attendees are encouraged to speak up about their own experiences to begin discussions.
“I want this to be an interactive course. I want there to be dialogue,” Hopkins said.
Col. Craig Parsons with the 3rd Medical Command (Deployment Support) in Fort Gillem, Ga., said the course was extremely useful to new commanders and command sergeant majors.
“This is the first time they can come together in this collective group and share their experiences. Any other time, they will meet in these exercises and that’s not the time to get to know each other and share experiences and activities,” Parsons said.
“No. 1, it’s given them the opportunity to coordinate and mingle with their peers, and No. 2, to understand exactly what’s expected of them as commanders and sergeant majors,” he said. “You can’t get that anywhere else.”
Col. Cindy Saladin-Muhammad with the 94 Combat Support Hospital in Seagoville, Texas, said she found the course very useful as a new commander.
“I think it’s very helpful to the combat support hospital/field hospital commanders as they go out to start serving,” she said.
She said the section covering logistics was especially helpful to her, as was the discussion about the upcoming conversion from the combat support hospital to the field hospital.
“Just to leverage all the experience in the room has just been fantastic,” Saladin-Muhammad said.
Saladin-Muhammad said she also appreciated the chance to learn about the resources available at Fort McCoy, both at RTS-Medical and installationwide. Garrison personnel attended sessions to discuss Fort McCoy’s training capabilities, and course attendees toured RTS-Medical to see the medical training equipment and facilities available.
RTS-Medical is one of three regional training sites available to units in the Army Reserve. It specializes in training service members to set up hospitals from bare ground and keep them running in a deployed or austere environment.
The organization has been a tenant activity and training partner at Fort McCoy since 1991.
| Date Taken: | 11.21.2018 |
| Date Posted: | 11.21.2018 13:08 |
| Story ID: | 300924 |
| Location: | FORT MCCOY, WISCONSIN, US |
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